Steve Bannon: International Man of ?

      Former White House advisor and Trump insider, Steve Bannon, is now going to Europe to stir up the locals with his discredited agenda of right wing topics and goals.  It was recently announced that one of two Italian leaders will join his group in Belgium for a conference on the EU and its ongoing problem with migrants and refugees.  Yestersday's Swedish elections did not turn out in the manner anticipated by doom-saying media types here and abroad.  The Swedish Democrats were only able to muster about 18% of the votes cast for their party, meaning that a coalition government will have to be formed.  The right wing party has increased its percentage of influence from 13% to almost 18%.  While an improvement in numbers, it does not indicate an abandonment of democratic traditions in this Nordic bastion of 10 million people.
     The Swedes welcomed more refugees and migrants than any other country of its size and more than many larger countries.   However many they thought they could absorb without a problem, the sudden influx of so many stirred latent fears that the Swedish culture would be torn apart.  Right wing proponents played upon this fear to tout their position that Sweden was being invaded by muslims and Middle Easterners who would form enclaves and never fit in, citing conditions in France, Germany, and the UK.  A recent uptick in gun violence with attendant increase in homicides made voters take note of these sudden alterations in the fabric of Swedish culture.
      Mr. Bannon, now held in disrepute in the USA, hopes to stir other countries to gather around an international movement to thwart efforts by various countries to become locations of welcoming to a continuing tide of refugees from war torn Middle East locations such as Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Turkey, and Iran.   Can Mr. Bannon gather enough support to make a difference among his followers?  Can he enlist a new wave of adherents to his xenophobia type of philosophy?  Maybe he will, but probably not.   His efforts will be closely watched by member states of the EU and the USA.